The Timmins and District Hospital Foundation marched $2 Million closer to its $15 million fundraising goal on Saturday thanks to substantial donations from both Goldcorp Porcupine Gold Mines and Detour Gold Corporation.
Paul Martin, president and CEO of Detour Gold, presented a $1.5 Million contribution to the foundation’s 2013-2016 Capital Campaign — Building For Tomorrow’s Healthcare Today at the 18th Annual Spring Gala and Lottery at the Days Inn on April 30.
The company has already contributed $500,000 of that amount to date and will continue to fund the remaining $1 Million over the next two years. Martin, who traveled from Toronto to attend the presentation, said the donation is part of Detour Gold’s philanthropic commitment to giving back to the communities where it operates.
Sudbury, Ontario, April 15th, 2016 – This week 50 Aboriginal youth in Sudbury and Wahnapitae First Nation have new educational technology tools thanks to a donation by One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Canada and Vale. The students will receive personal tablets designed by OLPC with children and communities in mind.
The tablets feature dozens of pre-installed educational apps for skill development in areas such as literacy, math, science and Aboriginal cultures and languages. Each tablet also features a library of more than 100 e-books, including children’s stories by First Nations, Métis and Inuit authors.
The Diavik Diamond Mine, in remote Canada, is proving that diamond mining can be ethical and transparent.
The question of provenance is one that looms ever larger in the world of luxury jewellery. No longer is it enough for a jewel to look beautiful; customers also want to know that there are no dirty secrets lurking in its past life, before it is cut, polished and set into a piece of ethical jewellery.
A recent report by Ethical Consumer magazine pinpointed ethical jewellery as a flourishing sector of the rapidly growing consumer market, which is now worth more than £50 billion. Anecdotally, jewellers are also reporting a sharp increase in consumers wanting to know more about the origin of the jewels they are buying.
Mining may be controversial but it isn’t going away anytime soon, moderator Paul Cadario warned the audience at the start of a daylong conference on the geopolitics of mining held last week at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
“We all take for granted what comes out of the earth, and nobody’s proposing that we give up our cellphones or stop constructing buildings or turn off our electrical power plants,” said Cadario, a former World Bank senior manager, former president of the University of Toronto Alumni Association and now an advisor to the Munk School.
Cadario’s view was echoed at the close of the conference by Keith Stewart, a part-time U of T lecturer and Greenpeace campaigner. “We would have to move to a world without extractive resources if we wanted to get rid of mining. That’s very difficult to envision.”
http://www.pendaproductions.com/ This video was produced by PENDA Productions, a full service production company specializing in Corporate Communications with a focus on Corporate Responsibility.
(L to R) Glenn Mullan, First Vice President PDAC; William Lamb, CEO of Lucara Diamond Corp. (Photo by Envisiondigitalphoto.com)
This award honours an individual or organization demonstrating outstanding initiative, leadership and accomplishment in protecting and preserving the natural environment and/or in establishing good community relations during an exploration program or operation of a mine.
Lucara Diamond Corp.: For its stakeholder initiatives, community engagement and focus on sustainable practices and long-term benefits at their Karawoe mine in Botswana.
Lucara Diamond Corp. has committed to responsible development of its assets and operations, and has structured itself with long-term success in mind. It began publishing Global Reporting Initiative compliant sustainability reports in 2012 to ensure its performance was documented and communicated transparently to stakeholders.
Through a darkened window, streaks of silver flit back and forth, iridescent scales flashing blue-green and pink in the dim light.
The top of the tank opens and Mark Palkovits, land reclamation supervisor with Vale, shakes a few handfuls of food into the water. In an instant, the small swimmers – juvenile rainbow trout, some three thousand of them – pick up their pace, streaking toward the surface and gobbling up the proffered pellets.
The food is quickly gone and the tiny trout continue cruising their tank, unaware of the vital role they’re playing in Vale’s land reclamation efforts and the overall re-greening of Greater Sudbury.
Barrick has participated in an innovative pilot project designed to help mining companies better assess and manage their potential impacts on the rights of children.
While mining companies have long recognized children as vulnerable stakeholders, most companies don’t classify children as a distinct stakeholder group in their human rights impact assessments. Instead, companies typically view children as an embedded group within the family or community.
“Very few companies have standalone child human rights policy commitments, except for the prevention of child labor,” says Simon Chorley, International Programs Manager at UNICEF Canada, which developed the pilot. “Yet children’s rights go well beyond child labor. Children are vulnerable and have specific needs. Therefore they have specific rights such as the right to protection, the right to education, the right to family life, and the right to play time.”
Goldcorp Helps Equip Pediatric Cancer Clinic in Western Guatemala
Thanks to an injection of support from Goldcorp, children fighting cancer in western Guatemala will soon be able to receive treatment closer to home, with their parents at their sides, in a new, state-of-the-art cancer treatment centre that is currently under construction.
The province of San Marcos, near Goldcorp’s Marlin mine, is far from Guatemala City, where the national pediatric oncology unit is located. According to Gloria de Dios, Director of Fundraising for the centre, as many as 38% of patients come from the western region. Until now, children and families in the west have had to travel to Guatemala City for treatment. Some families have been forced to move to the city while their child undergoes extended care. But not for much longer.
(L to R) Tina Vincent-Gagnon and Nick Larochelle from the United Steelworkers present Kelly Sinclair, Michael Cullen and Katherine Cockburn from United Way Sudbury and Nipissing District with a cheque for $600,000 along with Danica Pagnutti and Stuart Harshaw from Vale, on behalf of Vale’s employees in Sudbury.
SUDBURY, February 16, 2016 – Vale and the United Steelworkers (USW) celebrated another Sudbury Saturday Night with a $600,000 donation to the United Way Sudbury and Nipissing District on February 13th. The funds will be distributed to local United Way member agencies for programming and operational support.
“This investment in our community is something our employees can be very proud of,” said Stuart Harshaw, Vale’s Vice-President of Ontario Operations. “Their continuous generosity makes an enormous difference in our community.”
BC Children’s Hospital Foundation – /EINPresswire.com/ — PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwired) — 01/20/16 — Mining for Miracles, the BC mining community’s longstanding fundraising campaign for BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, launched their 2016 campaign today in support of the CAUSES research clinic, a state-of-the-art diagnostic centre for rare diseases in pediatric patients. Premier Christy Clark joined BC mining industry representatives to launch this year’s fundraising campaign.
“Mining for Miracles is one of the many ways in which B.C.’s mining industry supports families and communities in every corner of our province,” said Premier Clark. “Over the years, Mining for Miracles has raised more than $25 million for BC Children’s Hospital, helping to connect children and their families with the care and support they need.”
The new CAUSES Research Clinic provides genome-wide sequencing to support the accurate and efficient diagnosis of rare genetic diseases in children who would otherwise require numerous tests or might not be diagnosed at all.
Barrick is partnering with the Toronto Zoo to support wetlands conservation and programming, as well as restoration, education and outreach.
The company will provide funding for the zoo’s Wildlife Health Centre, which supports infrastructure for wetlands and biodiversity programming. This includes the Turtle Head Start and Amphibian Rescue facilities, which house internal breeding and release programs. The Toronto Zoo will also use part of the funds to add and restore wetland areas on its property, which is adjacent to Rouge Park. The park, which has extensive wetlands and wildlife habitat, is one of the only Canadian national parks located in an urban setting.
“We have lost more than 75 percent of our wetland habitats in urban Canada due to development or drainage for agriculture,” says Julia Phillips, Program Coordinator for the Toronto Zoo’s Adopt-A-Pond Wetland Conservation Program. “Ontario has more than 74,000,000 acres of wetlands, but at least 70 percent of the wetlands in heavily urbanized southern Ontario have disappeared in the last 200 years.”
Wetlands provide critical ecosystem services to humans, filtering the water we drink, protecting us from floods and natural disasters, and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Mo Bro Randy Whitcome, BHP Billiton – Specialist Compliance Legal, Potash.
It’s the time of year when men are getting ready to grow the most epic moustache.
Movember is upon us, the month formerly known as November, which is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces around the world, all in the name of men’s health. During Movember Canadians band together in teams within their industry to create a network challenge at Movember.com.
These networks create a fun and competitive environment that showcases the collective achievement of the industry while raising awareness and funds for men’s health, particularly prostate cancer, testicular cancer, poor mental health and physical inactivity. To date, $175 million has been raised in Canada.
In 2014, BHP Billiton Canada, had 39 members on their Movember team called Average Joes with Awesome Mo’s. Lead by Mo Bro Randy Whitcome, the team has raised over $17,000 and had fun doin’ good with fundraising activities that included direct donations from family and friends and fun challenges.
“My most memorable moment during Movember was hearing some tough Mo Bro’s sharing very personal stories with their co-workers”, said Randy Whitcome, Team Captain, Average Mo’s with Awesome Mo’s. “It made me proud to be part of the team and to have our company rally behind us and the cause.”
This year, the Movember Foundation is adding another way to champion men’s health with the addition of MOVE – a 30-day fitness challenge to promote physical activity. For Mo Sistas, MOVE is a way to do something tangible in the name of men’s health, and for Mo Bros it’s a new challenge. Grow your Mo, MOVE, or take things to the next level and do both.
TORONTO, Ontario, September 14, 2015 – Torex Gold Resources Inc. (the “Company” or “Torex”) (TSX:TXG) is pleased to announce that the resettlement of all 102 families of the village of La Fundicion has been completed at its 100% owned Morelos Gold Property in Mexico. The Company also announced that a draw of $25 million on its debt facility was received at the end of August and provided a construction update.
Construction: On Budget and On Schedule for First Gold Pour in Q4/15 and Commercial Production in Q2/16
Construction for first gold is 88% complete, with water and grid power now available at the processing plant. With these two services in place, the focus of construction is on finishing up the piping, electrical, and instrumentation work in preparation for initial commissioning of the processing plant circuits with water. The operations and maintenance teams have been hired and are working with commissioning specialists to bring the processing plant into production. There are still approximately 3,000 workers on site. This number will start to decrease given that road construction is drawing to a close as is ancillary construction such as the permanent camp.
Construction: On Budget and Ahead of Schedule for Full Production (14,000 t/d) By Year End 2016
Achieving full production of 14,000 tonnes per day requires the second pit, El Limon, to be in production. The access road to El Limon has been in place for some time now and has been used for the construction of the El Limon Crusher and the RopeCon, both of which are tracking ahead of schedule.
There were 6,000 more rainbow trout in the Onaping River on Thursday thanks to Vale’s efforts to enhance the river’s biodiversity.
The mining company’s environment team raised the fish in large tanks at its surface greenhouse in Copper Cliff and released them in a shallow part of the river in Dowling.
“Where we can, we try to protect biodiversity and enhance it where we have the opportunity,” said Glen Watson, superintendent of reclamation decommissioning for Vale’s Ontario operations.
Glen Watson, Superintendent, Reclamation & Decommissioning for Vale’s Ontario Operations, releases Rainbow Trout into the Onaping River in Dowling. The fish were raised at Vale’s greenhouse in Copper Cliff.
SUDBURY, September 3, 2015 – Vale’s environment team released approximately 6,000 rainbow trout into the Onaping River today. The fish were raised in large tanks at the company’s surface greenhouse in Copper Cliff.
“These rainbow trout will be a great boost to the Onaping River’s fish population,” said Glen Watson, Superintendent, Reclamation & Decommissioning for Vale’s Ontario Operations. “This is our fifth fish release into the Onaping River since we began the fish stocking program three years ago and we’re already seeing great results.”
Stocking formerly stressed rivers and lakes is part of Vale’s local biodiversity enhancement strategy, which includes a variety of local environmental initiatives from fish stocking to beekeeping to planting milkweed to attract and preserve monarch butterflies.
